ROME - British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised intelligence support in Sicily, bolstering the embattled Italian government as tensions continue to rise in migrant crisis struggle. 

  Cameron met with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the Milan Expo Wednesday, where they spoke of the immigration crisis and bilateral relations. Cameron stated that "we need...to work with your intelligence services in Sicily, where we will place people and resources to try to interrupt the links between those trying to cross the Mediterranean."

   "We are absolutely conscious of the fact this is an issue we need to work on jointly at European level," Cameron added.

  The British Royal Navy is helping to rescue migrants in distress in the Mediterranean, and the country has created "a large-scale aid program, which we are increasing in a bid to stabilize those countries," the prime minister reported. 

  Meanwhile, at the crux of Italy's migrant problem,  Mayor Enrico Loculano has announced that Ventimiglia is “in a state of emergency,” with 17 of the migrants now suspected as having contracted scabies. The Red Cross have sent them to the railway station's mobile medical unit to examine their symptoms, with six already confirmed as having to undergo scabies treatment.

  The Red Cross has set up first aid stands in Ventimiglia, and is also providing general hygienic services, food and water to the migrants. However, the situation is set to worsen as Thursday is the first day of Ramadan and as such, the already weakened migrants will refuse food and drink until after nightfall. Fiammetta Cogliolo, responsible for the Ligurian Red Cross department, reported that “the situation is now more delicate…we will have to see how many, contending with the sweltering heat and the precarious hygiene conditions, will be able to continue to endure the fasting.”

  The French border police, meanwhile, have increased their controls at the Menton-Garlaven railway station and the La Turbie motorway border. All of the trains arriving at the railway station are stopped and a documents control check is carried out throughout the whole train, before the train is allowed to continue.

  According to French police sources, acoustic sensors have also been placed along the tracks that pass through the border, to impede those trying to cross the border by foot. The French police also transported another 120 migrants late Wednesday evening back from the French border to Italy's Ventimiglia station.

  These measures come as the bodies of two migrants were found next to the railway track just beyond the French border town of Menton. Whilst sources have since declared that the bodies were found previous to the Ventimiglia crisis, the deaths confirm the scope of the European migration crisis at hand.